RE: RE: what causes a memory dump?

Depending on the type of process which is dumping. If it's a "background"
process
(LGWR,DBWR,SMON,PMON,CKPT,RECO,CJQ,P00,D00, shared servers, archiver) it
goes to bdump.
If it isn't, it goes to udump.

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